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1- From Llançà to Sant Genís del Terrer (PDF)
STARTING POINT: Tourist office / POINT OF ARRIVAL: Tourist office
DIFFERENCE IN HEIGHT: 200 m / TIME-LENGHT: 2h / GRADE OF DIFFICULTY: Medium
TYPE OF TRACK: Wide-track and walking-track
 DESCRIPTION OF ITINERARY: From the tourist office, turn towards the stream. Cross the stream and climb toward a wide-track that leads to the Coll de les Portes. From there descend to Sant Genís del Terrer to join the track that goes down along the Terrols stream, heading back to the N-II main road and to the tourist office.
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2- From Valleta to Sant Silvestre and Sant Genís (PDF)
STARTING POINT: Valleta / POINT OF ARRIVAL: Valleta
DIFFERENCE IN HEIGHT: 270 m / TIME-LENGHT: 2h / GRADE OF DIFFICULTY: Medium
TYPE OF TRACK: Wide-track
 DESCRIPTION OF ITINERARY: From Valleta, take the track that climbsby the stream of Valleta to Sant Silvestre. Once at the church, proceed toward Coll de les Portes (Portes mountain pass). Before reaching the top, theree is the option of taking the track that goes to the dolmen of Puig del Llop. If taking this option, one must then return the same way to continue the itinerary. Once at the top, on Coll de les Portes, take the way that descends toward Sant Genís del Terrer. Follow the summit along clot de Valletato reach the newly urbanized area.
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3- Puig d'Esquers (PDF)
STARTING POINT: Tourist office
POINT OF ARRIVAL: Tourist office
DIFFERENCE IN HEIGHT: 605 m / TIME-LENGHT: 6h
GRADE OF DIFFICULTY: Medium-alto
TYPE OF TRACK: Wide-track and walking-track
 DESCRIPTION OF ITINERARY: From the tourist office, go toward Sant Silvestre. Follow the GR-11 and leave it when reaching mas Guanter (farmhouse), just below the hill of Esquers (if you continue along the GR-11, you will be following itinerary 2.1 "Hill of Esquers"). Half-way up, turn to the left to visit the chapel of Sant Martí de Vallmala; return along the same track to continue the route. Once on the hill of Esquers, enjoy the views and visit the dolmen. On the descent, turn left to reach Sant Miquel de Colera, and return along the same track to reach the cross-roads and continue with the itinerary. Follow the summit along the puig del Llop ("Wolf's hill") and Tifell hill, where the Tifell dolmen can be visited. Continue descending along the hill-range of Socarrador until Argilera, from where you can reach the Port walking along the seaside. Once in the Port, go toward the village to reach the departure point.
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4- Puig d'Esquers (2) (PDF)
STARTING POINT: Tourist office
POINT OF ARRIVAL: Sant Quirze de Colera
DIFFERENCE IN HEIGHT: 220 m / TIME-LENGHT: 2h
GRADE OF DIFFICULTY: Medium
TYPE OF TRACK: Wide-track and walking-track
 DESCRIPTION OF ITINERARY:
From the tourist office, go toward Sant Silvestre. Follow the GR-11 track until Vilamaniscle, from where the signs on the track lead toward Sant Quirze de Colera. After approximately 1,5 Km, there is the menhir or standing stone of Mas Roqué. Continue to the abbey of Sant Quirze de Colera; to the West and not far away, the romanesque church of Santa Maria can also be seen.
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5- Old track of Sant Pere de Rodes (PDF)
STARTING POINT: Tourist office
POINT OF ARRIVAL: Tourist office
DIFFERENCE IN HEIGHT: 409 m (Coll del Perer) / TIME-LENGHT: 4h 15min
GRADE OF DIFFICULTY: Medium to high
TYPE OF TRACK: Wide-track, cart-track and walking-track
 DESCRIPTION OF ITINERARY: Leave from the tourist office, direction coll del Perer. Immediately follow a wide-track that leads to ribera d'en Prim (Prim's stream). Cross the stream and climb the hill toward coll del Perer (mountain pass). Descend to the hamlet of Vall de Santa Creu and eventually to the beach along the track next to the stream. Return along the GR-92, following this walking-track along the shore, to Llançà. Once in the Port go toward the village to reach the tourist office.
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6- Cap de Ras (PDF)
STARTING POINT: Port tourist office
POINT OF ARRIVAL: Port tourist office
DIFFERENCE IN HEIGHT: 30 m / TIME-LENGHT: 2h 45min
GRADE OF DIFFICULTY: Low
TYPE OF TRACK: Road, walking-track and wide-track
 DESCRIPTION OF ITINERARY:
From the Port tourist office, go to the promenade towards the Sant Carles neighborhood. From there, proceed toward the beaches of Sant Jordi, Grifeu and Canyelles to reach cape Ras. Follow the seashore and return the same way. |
7- Falcó fountain(PDF)
STARTING POINT: Port tourist office
POINT OF ARRIVAL: Port tourist office
DIFFERENCE IN HEIGHT: 25 m / TIME-LENGHT: 1h 45min
GRADE OF DIFFICULTY: Low
TYPE OF TRACK: Paved road, wide-track and walking-track
 DESCRIPTION OF ITINERARY: Leave the Port tourist office and go toward the village. From the port chapel go toward Gardissó street (via Estela street), proceeding to the schools, from where you ascend toward the fountain of Falcó (behind the institute). From the fountain, enter to Llebeig street. Follow the walking track that leads to platja de les Tonyines (the "beach of the tunas") and then take the camí de ronda GR-92 (track along the seashore). This is a particularly beautiful walk, with wonderful views of the coast. Walk along the beaches of Farella, Carboneres, past Gola and Castellar, to reach the Port of Llançà, about a km out of town.
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8- Mediaeval Llançà (PDF)
STARTING POINT: The tower on the village square
POINT OF ARRIVAL: The tower on the village square
DIFFERENCE IN HEIGHT: 100 m / TIME-LENGHT: 1h 15min
GRADE OF DIFFICULTY: Low
TYPE OF TRACK: Paved streets
 DESCRIPTION OF ITINERARY: From the town-square, proceed from the tower to the Dins la Vila street, descend along Muralla street and start to ascend along Afora, Pi and Torre streets to the square where the windmill is; stop at "l'era" (a square where there is a plaque representing the Nature Reserve of Cape Creus), to observe the hill of Damunt and the farmhouse of Gifre. Descend along carrer Sant Vicenç to reach the old abbot's palace (once owned by the abbot of the monastery of Sant Pere de Rodes) and the church of Sant Vicenç. From the street of Rafel Estela (old "carrer de mar" or "sea street") and Picasso, one reaches the defense tower, having crossed a car park and the back of the Casa de Cultura grounds.
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9- Dolmen of mas de la Mata (PDF)
STARTING POINT: Road of Sant Pere de Roda-Vilajuïga Km 1,5.
POINT OF ARRIVAL: Road of Sant Pere de Roda-Vilajuïga Km 1,5.
DIFFERENCE IN HEIGHT: 70 m / TIME-LENGHT: 1h (one-way)
GRADE OF DIFFICULTY: Low
TYPE OF TRACK: Road and wide-track
 DESCRIPTION OF ITINERARY:
Take the road that goes from the monastery of Sant Pere de Rodes to Vilajuïga; after approximately one and a half kilometres, turn right down a wide-track to mas Margall (a farmhouse). Go past the farmhouse leaving it on the right-hand side and go up the track on the left hand-side to the house called can Magí. From here, descend to the farmhouse of mas de la Mata. The dolmen can be found on the North side. |
10- Dolmen of Roca Miralles (PDF)
STARTING POINT: Road from Llançà to Figueres Km 20,8.
POINT OF ARRIVAL: Road from Llançà to Figueres Km 20,8.
DIFFERENCE IN HEIGHT: 100 m / TIME-LENGHT: 30 min (walk from the road to the dolmen)
GRADE OF DIFFICULTY: Medium
TYPE OF TRACK: Walking-track
 DESCRIPTION OF ITINERARY:
Take the road from Llançà to Figueres and once past the railway-bridge, turn left down a track (aproximately on Km 20,8). Follow this track toward mas Pujolar (farmhouse) Past the farmhouse, the track runs along the flank of the Roca Miralles hill and leads straight to the dolmen.
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GR11
STARTING POINT: Cap d'Híger
POINT OF ARRIVAL: Cap de Creus
DESCRIPTION OF ITINERARY: Long-distance track, wich starts in the Cantabric (Atlantic) to the Mediterranean across the south side of the Pyrenees. The track is 825 km long, of wich 335 km correspond to the Andorran and Catalan sections. |
GR92
STARTING POINT: Portbou (catalan section)
POINT OF ARRIVAL: Ulldecona (catalan section)
DESCRIPTION OF ITINERARY: Long-distance track, wich is part of the European walking-track E-10 (Baltic Sea-Mediterranean). The Peninsular track starts in Portbou and crosses Catalonia, the valencian country, Murcia and continues through Andalusia, along the Mediterranean coast as closely as possible to the sea. |
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